Milton S. Hershey failed three times before finding success in the candy business. He had refused to give up on his expedition to prosper in this particular market. Starting his failed businesses with a wide variety of candy‚ he then had success after making caramel a priority. That was until he discovered chocolate. The result was what you recognize as the Hershey Chocolate bar. The empire he built was based on one goal: to bring chocolate to everyone at an affordable price. Beginning his life
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Robert E Lee or Ulysses S. Grant. Unfortunately this question does not have an official answer on which general is better. People often speculate that question. Ulysses S. Grant was a better general than Robert E Lee because the north won the civil war‚ Grant was more dedicated that Lee‚ and Lee’s army was less experienced than Grant. All of those points makes Grant a better general than Lee. The civil war was not a fun battle. Many people died during that war. During the 1800’s the southern portion
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Darry is a character on the Outsiders‚ a book by S.E. Hinton. The outsiders is about two gangs‚ the Socs and the Greasers. It focuses on the many challenges between the two gangs. Darrel‚ aka Darry is a strong and responsible young man. Darry is a twenty year old brother of Ponyboy and Sodapop. “Darry is six-feet-two‚ and broad-shouldered and muscular” (6). Darry has cold green-blue eyes‚ and dark brown hair like his dad. He also looks like his father. “He doesn’t understand anything that is not
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Who knew that all of this would have ended with a handshake. Ulysses S. Grant started with 100‚000 men and had lost 17‚000 men. First it was Shiloh then the battle at Richmond. Then the battle of the Missionary Ridge Siege of Petersburg‚The battle of Wilderness and many many more‚ who knows what’s to come next! Grant moved his troops south to Richmond the next morning. In 30 days Grant had lost 50‚000 troops. One day in the middle of the night a fire started in the woods where Grant and his troops
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Why Ulysses S. Grant Was a Superior General to Robert E. Lee Bullets rained down on the men as they trampled over the enemy‚ battling their way to victory at the command of their beloved general. During the Civil War‚ Soldiers greatly admired their generals. After the Civil War ended in 1865‚ Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant emerged as two of the most distinguished generals in American history. Robert E. Lee‚ a devoted Virginian‚ fought for the Confederacy. Ulysses S. Grant‚ a hero of the Mexican
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Harry S. Truman’s presidency‚ riddled with moral dilemmas‚ is often argued as being one of the worst in history‚ however his controversial yet effective use of military power‚ the lasting treaties that he promoted on behalf of the US‚ his bold use of legislative power -promoting support to communist threatened countries to congress- and his usage of executive power through executive orders and the assembly of his cabinet has demonstrated that his presidency has been successful to the growth of our
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Current critical debate discusses contemporary poetry in terms of the Pound‚ Stevens or Williams’ era‚ forgetting T. S. Eliot‚ the poet who presided over the literary scenario for almost half a century. Eliot’s bookishness‚ political conservatism and religious leanings‚ together with the Modernist cultivation of an erudite‚ culturally charged idiom‚ have constituted a serious source of critical discontent. For the adepts of Marxist hermeneutics‚ his work came to represent “a privileged‚ closed‚ authoritative
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Q. Explain how T.S Eliot’s poems “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” and “Preludes” express modernist concerns Modernist concerns are expressed through T.S Eliot’s poems ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ and ‘Preludes’. Eliot uses his fragmented childhood experiences and his thoughts on the squalor modern life to express the issues of meaningless life‚ isolation‚ the alienation and loneliness that the humans feel and lastly the damaged psyche of humanity. The issues of meaningless life is expressed through complex
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Not Your Typical Love Poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a poem by T.S. Eliot about a man. The narrator of the poem is trying to figure out how to tell someone something‚ but keeps putting it off because there is‚ supposedly‚ more time. This poem speaks about the modern era and the men and women of this time‚ by showing the reader a fine line between what is nostalgic and modern habits. This poem breaks the conventions of a typical love poem since the narrator is not the typically beautiful
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Robert Renfroe‚ better known as Bob Riley once said‚ “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed”. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton‚ Johnny Cade is a 16-year-old Greaser with long and greasy ebony hair covering his forehead. He has dark pusillanimous eyes and a scar that runs from his forehead to his cheekbone. Johnny is portrayed as an abused boy who was emotionally and physically traumatized‚ but throughout the novel‚ it is revealed that he is a
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